Nexcess Knowledge Base

Nexcess allows customers to leverage vanity subdomains for website testing purposes. So, vanity domains within Nexcess hosting plans are actually temporary subdomains under the primary domain.

Learn how to manage web hosting environments with regard to staging and development areas at Nexcess. Build and test features/settings on staging and dev with no impact to your production website.

Let's take inventory of the advantages of Nexcess hosting, where your site will have more tools, addons, and resources. Then, let's learn how to migrate your site from Flywheel hosting to Nexcess.

Transferring code from localhost to a live website is similar to migrating a website from one server to another. Move WordPress local development to Nexcess hosting using this guide.

Let's examine the history of MySQL vs. MariaDB and see how they compare — MySQL vs. MariaDB — and the performance advantages behind why the Nexcess application stack is built using MariaDB.

Once your site is good to go after design and testing phases are done, you can take your WordPress site live by following the steps provided in this article for how to make a WordPress site live.

This article will give you an overview of Nexcesss website backups, the Nexcess data backup policy, and how to create a manual backup from the Nexcess Client Portal in an ad hoc fashion.

In this Nexcess Knowledge Base article focused on security, you will learn how to send secure data to the Nexcess Support Team — ensuring the safe sharing of sensitive hosting account information.

Learning how to empty the cache for Magento 2 and WordPress websites can help you propagate changes across your website much faster. Let's go over the details and methods involved.

SSH (Secure Shell) and SSH FTP (SFTP) access via command line is available in Managed WordPress and Managed WooCommerce plans and credentials are found within each site's management page.